As focus has renewed on fraud in Minnesota under Governor Tim Walz's administration, for which the majority of those charged so far are part of the Somali community, a CNN pundit has claimed that focusing on the suspects’ race and ethnicity is "categorical nonsense."
Speaking in a panel, Tangle editor-at-large Kmele Foster said, "This is how we talk about race and ethnicity in this country. We do a lot of categorical denunciations. For a very long time, it was all about kind of black lives and whiteness and what whiteness does. No one should be shocked that this is how we're talking about Somalians in this context as well. And I think in general, if we were to move away from that kind of categorical nonsense, it’ll be a little bit easier take in, take on board the condemnations of the President in this context, as opposed to having to just kind of do it when it’s convenient for us."
Kmele Foster: “This is how we talk about race and ethnicity in this country. We do a lot of categorical denunciations … No one should be shocked that this is how we’re talking about Somalians in this context as well.”
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